I'm doing this inside vmware.
I need a 2.4 kernel because of the significantly simpler scheduler.
The 2.6 scheduler is a beast that I don't much want to play with. I'm
planning on modifying it to test some things which include an
interactive workload. (If any of you have done this, I'd be interested
in your experiences).
I settled on debian 3.1
On 10/4/07, Greg Price <gprice at post.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Why the interest in 2.4? Are you going to be using this system
> as your main workstation (or why else do you want mplayer)?
> "What are you really trying to do?"
>> Have you considered running the kernel you hack on in a Xen VM,
> so you can get work done in a more stable kernel?
>> For Debian releases,
>http://www.debian.org/releases/> will get you the release notes, which should answer your question.
>> Greg
>> On 10/4/07, Roy Shi <rshi at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > Hey peeps,
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone could recommend a distro for hacking the 2.4
> > kernel (and starts with the 2.4 kernel as the base default). I'm
> > hoping that it'll have a good package system (like debian) and be able
> > to support modern multimedia apps (like mplayer).
> >
> > I guess debian would suit me, but does anyone know which was the
> > latest release that used the 2.4 kernel as it's default?
> >
> > Best,
> > Roy.
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